Irrigation Wire Pulling

All of the irrigation improvements for this winter have been installed now.  The last step was pulling the new irrigation wires from the heads back to the irrigation satellites so they can run automatically.

Here you can see we started where our irrigation trench of new pipe and heads stopped and are pulling the new wires back toward the irrigation clock.

 

 

Wires being rolled out by Colby and Ryan getting ready to pull them into the ground.





The reason for the need of addition to our irrigation system is mainly due to the lack of proper spacing on our current heads.  We will discuss many facets about our irrigation system throughout the next few months.  When the system was installed back in the early 1970's, there was not the precision, technology capability, and need for accuracy that we have today.  Our heads are placed on 90 ft spacing, in some areas this spacing is the correct 90 ft to the next head, other areas it is 120 ft, and in some cases it is 140 ft to the next head.  This leads to inadequate coverage between the heads and thus the dry spots appear in the summer months when it gets hot.  We added heads in the worst areas to improve the coverage of our system.